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dw_suggestions2010-09-02 04:34 am
Variation of "Tropospherical" Site Scheme
Title:
Variation of "Tropospherical" Site Scheme
Area:
site schemes
Summary:
I'd like a variation of the "Tropospherical" site scheme in colours that are easier on the eyes.
Description:
As it happens, the default site scheme has always been the one that I liked best. However, "best" in this case means "just about bearable" because I absolutely can't stand the colours. I love everything else about it, but those particular shades of red and purple both make me cringe - especially in combination with that light grey background.
Vertical navigation confuses me to no end, so switching to Celerity is not an option for me. I really like the colours of that one, though. A plain, white background and a shade of green that's easy on the eyes - awesome!
It would be neat if there was a version of Tropospherical that had a white background as well, maybe combined with a similarly muted colour as Celerity - it doesn't have to be green; I'd suggest blue or brown, for example. Even the default red would look better without the grey.
I'm curious - does anybody actually *like* these schemes as they are?? Could one of them perhaps be replaced? If not, what do you think about adding a third option? I know I'm not the only one who has a problem with the colours; I've come across several comments by random people complaining about them off-handedly.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
28 (56.0%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (16.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)
13 (26.0%)
(Other: please comment)
1 (2.0%)
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I personally am neutral to the Tropospherical colors (I think this is in large part because my eyes read the background gray as white), but I have seen several people complain that their main barrier to joining DW is the site scheme colors. I don't know what kind of complexity is involved with changing the site colors, but if there are a whole mass of people that can be driven to DW just by changing a couple of colors, that seems to be the kind of low cost/high reward fix that makes everyone happy (to the extent that everyone can be happy at the same time on the internet).
And I have to admit, if there were a more neutral site scheme available, I might switch to it. Something with the layout of tropospheric, but in more neutral colors, like the OP suggested, would be perfect.
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There's already Tropo Purple, plus Celerity, Gradation Horizontal/Vertical, and Lynx. I'm not saying that we won't consider adding more colorswaps, especially since we recently did some work to make it so that it was easier for files to inherit from each other on the backend, but I'm saying, there already are many alternatives to the red, and all someone has to do to change it is go to the settings tab and change it. (Don't even need to log in. You can set a cookie pref.)
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Many? There are only two: Purple and Gradation. Besides, Purple is not that different from Red.
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